Business Future Quotes

#1. I used to believe that culture was "soft," and had little bearing on our bottom line. What I believe today is that our culture has everything to do with our bottom line, now and into the future.

Vern Dosch

#2. The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#3. Elena, we have a business relationship which has profited us both immensely. Let's keep it that way. What was between us is part of past. Anastasia is my future, and I won't jeopardize it in any way, so cut the fucking crap.

E.L. James

#4. The future you see is the future you get.

Robert G. Allen

#5. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

#6. The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

Gregory Stock

#7. Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.

Loren Weisman

#8. I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.

Joe Mansueto

#9. In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

Ellen J. Barrier

#10. Progressives make money and spend money on businesses that meet needs instead of kill people! The future is in meeting needs - unto the bourgeois business of cleaning the drapes! - not spewing death and destruction with kickbacks.

Mimi Kennedy

#11. My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Jim Rohn

#12. Though Satan makes strong men weak, God is in the business of making weak men strong. Your past isn't the most important thing. Your future is.

Craig Groeschel

#13. Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Peter Drucker

#14. People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Bill Nye

#15. I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola

Holly Hurd

#16. In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business must take resource productivity seriously

David Miliband

#17. My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

Faith Ford

#18. If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

Warren Buffett

#19. Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over ... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

Gladys Taber

#20. The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

John Sculley

#21. We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#22. The value of a business is the cash it's going to produce in the future.

Warren Buffett

#23. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.

Blake Mycoskie

#24. It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Charlie Munger

#25. For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

Victor Fung

#26. I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.

Nelson Mandela

#27. Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

Richard Branson

#28. Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry R. Luce

#29. She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity and a chance at a better and more peaceful tomorrow."
~in other words capitalism!(my words)

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#30. My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

Stana Katic

#31. It is important to focus on present work. It is more important to align your present work with future outlook and desires.

Abhishek Ratna

#32. Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

Christina Romer

#33. The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

John Harvey-Jones

#34. Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Lee Ellis

#35. The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no technique, no program, just a sharp mind in touch with the situation.

Henry Mintzberg

#36. The present and future of knowledge attainment and essential business skills.

Bill Gates

#37. It was grounded in my belief at the time that a business is only as strong as its closest customer relationships, and that what those customers said about our business beyond our four walls would shape our future. I

Gary Vaynerchuk

#38. See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

Larry Ellison

#39. If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

Robert Kiyosaki

#40. Companies that recognize the need to be creative about their businesses are going to pursue this creative thinking with us or without us. It's our collective responsibility, our collective future to make sure they choose to do it with us.

Bob Schmetterer

#41. We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

Brian Roberts

#42. Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Anita Brookner

#43. Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

Reid Hoffman

#44. We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

Richard Branson

#45. To be honest, I've always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad's Super 8 camera. In my mind, it's all one big continuum of filmmaking and I've never changed.

Christopher J. Nolan

#46. The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Charles Dunstone

#47. There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.

Cory Doctorow

#48. Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#49. Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.

Ratan Tata

#50. While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.

Mickey Drexler

#51. Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker

#52. Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

Barry Diller

#53. Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.

Jemima Khan

#54. In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#55. Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

Suzy Kassem

#56. In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

Tony Alessandra

#57. The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it ... soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.

Brian Tracy

#58. Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business.

Heidi

#59. In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Akio Morita

#60. Re-imaging the future of business is exciting, but investigating the different path for unleashing business potential needs to take a systematic approach and develop it into a more solid form.

Pearl Zhu

#61. If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

Jim DeMint

#62. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...

Max McKeown

#63. Once you're in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.

Li Ka-shing

#64. In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

Karen Walker

#65. The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

Alfred North Whitehead

#66. The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

Scott Adams

#67. It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

Debra Kaye

#68. As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities.

Edwin Land

#69. When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

Alexander Payne

#70. If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

John Hoeven

#71. Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

Thomas H. Davenport

#72. It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

Harry Triguboff

#73. The future of business is social.

Barry Libert

#74. Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.

Debra Kaye

#75. With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

Doc Hastings

#76. Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.

Peter Thiel

#77. Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Peter Drucker

#78. Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#79. People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

Peter Diamandis

#80. The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

Dalai Lama XIV

#81. The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.

Omer Soker

#82. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)

Mike Van Hoozer

#83. Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Herbert Hoover

#84. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Sheryl Sandberg

#85. No one can know the future, least of all, a historian, whose business is the past.

Niall Ferguson

#86. For associations to emerge healthy and strong, they must re-engage with their members around the heart-centered why of why they exist, leverage current leadership, and build future leadership while they integrate the balance of technology and face-to-face experiences.

Holly Duckworth

#87. Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

Muhammad Yunus

#88. I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.

Eric Braeden

#89. Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.

Elisabeth Elliot

#90. Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.

Omer Soker

#91. A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Jon Meacham

#92. The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

Theodor Herzl

#93. Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors ... Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Richard Branson

#94. Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

Patrick Dixon

#95. Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

Geraldine Laybourne

#96. GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#97. The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.

Pearl Zhu

#98. To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

Holly Duckworth

#99. But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

Fernando Flores

#100. Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

Fred Singer